Photographer Bruce Weber poses with his award after being named winner of the Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator award at the British Fashion Awards 2016 in London. (Daniel Leal-Olivas / AFP/Getty Images)

Five male models have filed a new lawsuit claiming Bruce Weber used his power as a top New York fashion photographer to sexually assault and traffic them.

The men, identified only by their initials, filed their complaint Friday in Manhattan federal court.

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The models claim Weber lured them to photo shoots with the promise of career advancement then subjected them to a “fraudulent breathing exercise” that ended with molestation.

A model identified as A.J. claims he met Weber in New York in October 2010 and was hired for a French Vogue shoot with the famous lensman three months later.

According to the lawsuit, Weber introduced the “breathing exercise” to A.J. during the Miami shoot and directed him to guide Weber’s hand “wherever A.J. felt the ‘energy’ of his body.”

“These new allegations against Bruce Weber are outrageous. Bruce Weber has never lured, recruited, or forced anyone to do anything and has never inappropriately touched a model,” lawyer Jayne Weintraub said.

“This lawsuit is nothing more than a media-hungry lawyer’s attempt to extort Mr. Weber with false, fictitious and legally frivolous claims. We are confident that Mr. Weber will prevail against these false allegations; not just with words, but with evidence in a court of law,” she said.

The five models are represented by Los Angeles-based civil rights lawyer Lisa Bloom and her firm.

“He then took my hand and told me to ‘find the energy’ by guiding my hand and rubbing it on one of three places — my forehead, chest or my stomach,” he said. “Each time, the ‘energy’ in my stomach would get lower and lower until I had to navigate the remaining space left before having to touch myself. I felt ashamed and embarrassed.”

The photographer famous for his racy advertisements for labels such as Abercrombie & Fitch and Calvin Klein denied the claims in an exposé published by the New York Times in January.

“I’m completely shocked and saddened by the outrageous claims being made against me, which I absolutely deny,” Weber said in a statement provided by his lawyer.

In a statement Friday, Bloom’s firm said it filed the latest lawsuit under the federal sex trafficking law because the law has recently been interpreted to prohibit “casting couch” behavior in which powerful people exploit vulnerable job applicants for sexual gratification.